Word: boredome
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...Florida sun--happy as a clam, it seemed, and certainly no more talkative. Nixon's first public statement after the terror bombing came in a 60th birthday interview with the wire service reporters. With Bach Mai hospital in ruins, the President offered the world advice on how to relieve boredom (talk to young people) and specified which birthday presents he finds useful (ties...
MANKIEWICZ FEARED audience boredom because so few characters are ever seen at one time, so he introduced lots of unusual props--mainly complicated automated toys from the Victoria Museum of Childhood. He thought they would be interesting in themselves, making another character and providing relief from the constant dialogue. He was wrong, as many critics have been quick to point out. But his idea is still effective, to my mind, not because it makes an extra person but because the living room filled with lively figures extends Wyke's character into the complex fantasy of his fiction. Like Wyke...
...expensive suburban house, several cars, endless gadgets; the children have "all the advantages," the parents travel where they will. Study of their life reveals little about the great social upheavals tearing at this society's guts; their lives show only the indirect effects-- moral uncertainty, aimlessness, most of all boredom...
...artistic proportions it doesn't deserve. In the end, Frederic's irresolution makes him into less of a man. He hoards the familiar and circumscribed life he knows; and it is only a bourgeois convention that compells him to love his wife. Rohmer has made a movie out of boredom and girlwatching, and peopled it with expetts in self-deception...
...countryside has not reached the millions of Frenchmen who earn $180 or $200 a month, or who try to live on old-age pensions frozen at $2.20 a day in a time of rampant inflation. Overlaying the unevenness of le boom is an ill-defined but widely felt boredom with the Gaullists. Last spring, 40% of the French electorate did not even bother to turn out for a Common Market referendum that Pompidou too cleverly planned as a kind of national vote of confidence. Then came the scandals-notably the flap over former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas...